ROAD REPORT
WED JAN 6, 1999
PURGATORY SKI VILLAGE, CO

CATHOLIC WOMAN BEATS HUSBAND!!

The ROAD REPORT does love poetic justice, and on this eve of a Presidential Impeachment Trial [the start of which will surely hasten our return home to the warm comforting light of MSNBC] it is only fitting that it took a good Catholic woman to identify our location in the -- seemingly impossible -- "GUESS OUR DESTINATION" Contest! [Click here to read the contest's riddle, and other clues if you haven't already].

So it is with our congratulations and respect that we announce the winner of our contest as Becky Carey [nee Harms] of Kirkwood, Missouri, who with great aplomb submitted the correct answer to ROAD REPORT. Her note included the simple statement: "PURGATORY" -- and right she was! Beating her husband Keith's similarly correct entry to us that was sent a scant hour and 52 minutes later! Sorry Keith, better luck next time, but it looks like you've got a good woman there and perhaps she'll share the prize with you if you're nice [once we pick one out and send it, that is!]

We thought our riddle was chock full of clues [the letters of the first lines even spelled out the word "LIMBO"!] that would immediately be figured out by the hyperbright ROAD REPORT readers. But we guess were wrong, either about the riddle or the readers, since it took at least 3 days to come up with a winner!

Oh, well. Thanks for playing, and your answers submitted to let us know that someone out there is indeed paying attention!

Whoop! There it is!

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DESI DOYEN SHUTS DOWN SKI SLOPE AT PURGATORY!!

It was her first run of the day, on her first day of skiing since her last attempt at skiing last year, which was her first attempt at skiing ever.

It began promisingly enough, on the "Bunny Slope" here at the Purgatory Ski Village, on a very sunny and bright morning. Despite a persistant cold, today would surely straighten the record after last years difficult first outting on the slopes in Taos, New Mexico [details of which can be found on the Taos pages of last years "Brad & Desi's Holiday Roadtrip Odyssey" web page"].

Confident and ready to rock, with her trusted companion at her side, she eagerly stepped up to the first ski lift of the morning. Problem is, the ski lift decided to step up to her first!

In her eagerness to get on board, it seems, she failed to notice the chair rounding the bend and heading straight towards her right flank at a breakneck pace!!

And so, 2000 tons of twisted metal began to grab Ms. Doyen by the snowpants, and hoist her up the mountain in it's own way, in the demonic clutches of it's iron jaws.

After dragging Ms. Doyen a good four or five feet amidst the shrieks of terror from it's victim, the unruly beast was finally tamed by one of the good Purgatory Denizens who did hit the STOP button to save the day, and effectively shut down the slopes until the wary soldier could unfurl herself from the hulking mass.

Shaken, but not stirred, she straightened herself up, wiped a few tears from her eyes, and took on the beast again this time. Only to win, and go on for now two days of nearly crisis free skiing! One more day to go...

Now, as Paul Harvey might say, you know the rest of the story...

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